Rick Neuheisel
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| Rick Neuheisel | ||
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| Title | Head coach | |
| College | UCLA | |
| Sport | Football | |
| Conference | Pac-10 | |
| Team record | 0–0 | |
| Born | February 7, 1961 | |
| Place of birth | Madison, Wisconsin | |
| Annual salary | $1,250,000[1] | |
| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 66–30 | |
| Bowls | 4–3 | |
| Coaching stats | ||
| College Football DataWarehouse | ||
| Championships | ||
| 2000 Pac-10 Conference Championship | ||
| Playing career | ||
| 1980-83 | UCLA | |
| Position | Quarterback | |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1995–1998 1999–2002 2005–2007 2008–present |
Colorado Washington Baltimore Ravens (OC) UCLA |
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Richard Gerald “Rick” Neuheisel, Jr. (German: IPA: [ˈnɔi̯haɪzl̩]; English: IPA: /ˈnuːhaɪzl̩/) (born February 7, 1961 in Madison, Wisconsin) is a football coach, recently named the head coach at UCLA on December 29, 2007.[2]
Before the UCLA coaching job, he was the offensive coordinator for the NFL's Baltimore Ravens, after being promoted from quarterbacks coach following the 2006 NFL season.
He was the head coach for the University of Colorado Buffaloes football team as well as the University of Washington Huskies football team. He coached the Huskies to a victory in the 2001 Rose Bowl. He was fired from Washington in 2003 for betting on the 2003 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament in a bracket pool.
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[edit] Early years
Rick Neuheisel was born in Madison, Wisconsin, the oldest of four children and the only son of Dick and Jane (Jackson) Neuheisel. Rick grew up in Tempe, Arizona, and attended McClintock High School, where he lettered in three sports (football, basketball, baseball) and was named its outstanding athlete during his senior year. He graduated from McClintock in 1979.
[edit] College football player at UCLA
He played his college football at UCLA, beginning his career as a walk-on, holding for placekicks for John Lee.
He was the starting quarterback in his senior year in the 1983 college football season. UCLA opened with a loss at Georgia, a tie with Arizona State and then a 42-10 loss at #1-ranked Nebraska. Neuheisel was benched after the Nebraska loss in favor of Steve Bono. On October 1, the Bruins lost to BYU to start the season 0-3-1. Bono was injured during the BYU game, and Neuheisel came back to finish the season.[3] Neuheisel led the Bruins to an eventual 6-4-1 record, culminating with a win over arch-rival USC that, combined with Washington State's upset of Washington, gave UCLA the Pac-10 championship in 1983 and sent them to the Rose Bowl. Neuheisel led the Bruins to a 45-9 victory over 4th-ranked (& heavily-favored) Illinois in the 1984 Rose Bowl, in which he was named the most valuable player; two of his four touchdown passes were caught by a sophomore wide receiver from San Diego named Karl Dorrell, who would become the head coach of the Bruins.[4] Much like his rise to stardom at UCLA, the road to the victory was a bumpy one. Neuheisel and two other players on the defensive side of the ball suffered from food poisoning hours before the Rose Bowl and it was unsure that Neuheisel would start. Neuheisel would end up starting the game. He also set an NCAA record that year for single game pass completion percentage (since broken) by completing 25 of 27 passes (92.6%) in a win over Washington.
He was named to the Pac-10 All-Academic team and graduated from UCLA in May 1984 with a B.A. in political science and a 3.4 GPA.
[edit] Professional football career
His professional career included two seasons with the San Antonio Gunslingers (1984-1985) of the USFL and three games with the San Diego Chargers of the NFL in the strike season of 1987. He closed out the season's final two games with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but did not receive any playing time.
[edit] Football coaching career
[edit] Assistant coach UCLA Bruins 1990-1993
While attending University of Southern California Law School on an NCAA postgraduate scholarship, Neuheisel served as a graduate assistant with UCLA, where he tutored Troy Aikman. He graduated with a J.D. from USC in 1990[5] and passed the Arizona State Bar in May 1991 and the Washington, D.C. Bar in March 1993.
He later became a full-time assistant coach, and stayed at UCLA through the 1993 season. In 1994, he moved to Colorado as an assistant to Bill McCartney.
[edit] University of Colorado Head football coach 1995-1998
McCartney retired following the 1994 season and Neuheisel, age 34, was named the head coach. He stayed for four seasons (1995-98) in Boulder.
After Neuheisel left, Colorado lost five of 25 scholarships for one year, and was put on two years' probation for 53 rules violations, 51 when Neuheisel was the Colorado coach from 1995-98. "This was a serious case," the NCAA's infractions committee ruling said, "in which a football coaching staff, led by the former head football coach, in a calculated attempt to gain a recruiting advantage, pushed beyond the permissible bounds of legislation, resulting in a pattern of recruiting violations."[6]
It was during his time at Colorado that he first began to be known as "Slick Rick" by his detractors, as it reflected their belief that he possessed a disingenuous personality.
[edit] University of Washington Head football coach 1999-2002
Neuheisel was welcomed into the Rose Bowl hall of fame before the 1999 Rose Bowl.[7] University of Washington athletic director Barbara Hedges took the opportunity to meet with him and recruit him back as a head coach into the Pacific-10 conference. She fired coach Jim Lambright and named Neuheisel as the replacement. Neuheisel left for Seattle in January 1999 to coach at the University of Washington for four seasons (1999-2002). His starting salary was $1,000,000 annually, one of the five highest in the nation.[8] In the 2000 season, the Huskies won the Pac-10 title and the 2001 Rose Bowl over the Big Ten champ Purdue Boilermakers, led by quarterback Drew Brees. Washington, led by senior quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo, the Rose Bowl MVP, finished the season at 11-1 and was ranked third in the final national polls. Rick became the first and only former Rose Bowl MVP to coach a Rose Bowl winning team.
During the 2000 Rose Bowl season, Neuheisel and Barbara Hedges were accused (retroactively in series of painstakingly researched articles by the Seattle Times published in 2008) of overlooking many examples of criminal conduct and hooliganism, while community institutions, including prosecutors, police, judges and the media, went along. During that year, UW safety Curtis Williams was allowed to play despite being issued an outstanding arrest warrant for assaulting his wife, Michelle. Linebacker Jeremiah Pharms was under investigation for robbing and shooting a drug dealer after police found his fingerprints at the scene, but was not charged until the season was over. Jerramy Stevens, the Huskies star tight end, was under investigation of raping a UW freshman on sorority row. When Stevens later crashed his truck into a retirement home, Neuheisel suspended him for half a game.[9]
His 2001 and 2002 teams posted records of 8-4 and 7-6 respectively, as criticism began to mount that the team was becoming less physical and playing more of a finesse style. Passing yardage records were routinely broken while Washington's running game fell off dramatically.
[edit] NCAA Basketball pool causes NCAA infraction 2003
Neuheisel was fired in the summer of 2003 from the University of Washington for participating in a neighborhood pool for the 2003 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament . He first denied the accusation to investigators, and before admitting to it after consultation with school officials. The gambling case became a local sensation when it was revealed that he had received an internal UW memo which authorized gambling in off-campus tournament basketball pools. That fall, the NCAA infractions committee found Neuheisel violated NCAA rules against gambling but didn't sanction him, citing the memo by Washington's former compliance officer that mistakenly authorized this type of gambling. It also became apparent that the NCAA violated its own rules when questioning Neuheisel about the gambling. The University of Washington had its probation extended for failing to monitor its football program.[10][11]
Legal proceedings enabled Neuheisel to collect a $4.5 million settlement as the NCAA and University of Washington were forced to abandon their case. He served as a volunteer coach for Rainier Beach High School in Seattle for two seasons (2003-04).
[edit] Baltimore Ravens Assistant coach 2005-2006
Neuheisel became an assistant coach (quarterbacks) with the NFL's Baltimore Ravens in January 2005. In 2006, the Ravens acquired quarterback Steve McNair and won the AFC's North division with a 13-3 record. After the season, Neuheisel was promoted to offensive coordinator.
Neuheisel had been spotted around State College, PA, fueling speculation that he was in line for a coaching position at Penn State once legend Joe Paterno retired.[12]
[edit] UCLA Bruins Head football coach 2008-
Neuheisel was invited to two interviews regarding the head coaching position at his alma mater UCLA, after his former UCLA teammate, Karl Dorrell was fired.[13] Ravens head coach Brian Billick assured that he would allow Neuheisel to leave the team before the completion of the 2007 NFL season.[14]
On December 29, 2007, Neuheisel was introduced as the head coach of the UCLA Bruins. He immediately began to consolidate his coaching staff by retaining DeWayne Walker, Karl Dorrell's defensive coordinator, and hiring Norm Chow, the offensive architect of crosstown rival USC's 2004 national championship season. He also began to make himself highly visible to the media, including appearing at the 2008 Rose Bowl[15] and coining the phrase "Passion Bucket" during an interview on the Dan Patrick Show by saying, "When you’re at UCLA, you have to have your passion bucket full when you play the Trojans."[16]
On January 22, 2008, Neuheisel hired UCLA alum Mike Linn, a former VP of Programming at Velocity Sports Performance, starting lineman and strength coach at UCLA and strength coach at Saint Louis University as Head Strength and Conditioning Coach.
[edit] Family
Neuheisel and his wife, the former Susan Wilkinson, have three sons: Jerry (b. 1992), Jack (b. 1994), and Joe (b. 1997). His father, Richard "Dick" Gerald Neuheisel, is a past president of Sister Cities International.[17]
[edit] Record
| Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl | Coaches# | AP° | ||
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| Colorado (Big 8) (1995) | |||||||||
| 1995 | Colorado | 10–2 | 5–2 | T-2nd | W, 38-6 Cotton | 4 | 5 | ||
| Colorado (Big 12) (1996 – 1998) | |||||||||
| 1996 | Colorado | 10–2 | 7–1 | 2nd | W, 33-21 Holiday | 8 | 8 | ||
| 1997 | Colorado | 5–6* | 3–5* | T-4th | — | — | |||
| 1998 | Colorado | 8–4 | 4–4 | 4th | W, 51-43 Aloha | — | — | ||
| Colorado: | 28–14 | 19–12 | * Colorado forfeited all wins of the 1997 season due to an ineligible player, but Neuheisel was ruled not to be affected. |
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| Washington (Pac-10) (1999 – 2002) | |||||||||
| 1999 | Washington | 7–5 | 6–2 | 2nd | L, 24-20 Holiday | — | — | ||
| 2000 | Washington | 11–1 | 7–1 | T-1st | W, 34-24 Rose | 3 | 3 | ||
| 2001 | Washington | 8–4 | 6–2 | T-2nd | L, 47-43 Holiday | 19 | 19 | ||
| 2002 | Washington | 7–6 | 4–4 | T-4th | L, 34-24 Sun | — | — | ||
| Washington: | 33–16 | 23–9 | |||||||
| UCLA (Pac-10) (2008 — present) | |||||||||
| 2008 | UCLA | 0–0 | 0–0 | ||||||
| UCLA: | 0–0 | 0–0 | |||||||
| Total: | 66–30 | ||||||||
| National Championship Conference Title Conference Division Title | |||||||||
| †Indicates BCS bowl game. #Rankings from final Coaches Poll of the season. °Rankings from final AP Poll of the season. |
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| Preceded by Karl Dorrell and DeWayne Walker (interim) |
UCLA Head Football Coach 2008–present |
Succeeded by current |
| Preceded by Jim Lambright |
University of Washington Head Football Coach 1999–2002 |
Succeeded by Keith Gilbertson |
| Preceded by Bill McCartney |
University of Colorado Head Football Coach 1995–1998 |
Succeeded by Gary Barnett |
[edit] References
- ^ Los Angeles Times: Neuheisel goes back to school
- ^ Rick Neuheisel Named UCLA Head Football Coach (2007-12-29). Retrieved on 2007-12-29.
- ^ RETURN OF THE RICK CONTROVERSIAL NEUHEISEL BACK FOR REUNION OF '80S BRUINS. Los Angeles Daily News, October 18, 2003 (hosted at thefreelibrary.com) Quote:Neuheisel was a senior quarterback at UCLA in 1983 and was benched after an 0-2-1 start. "(Terry) Donahue told me when things like that happen to a football team, one of two things usually happens," he said. "Either the head coach gets fired or the quarterback gets fired. He said he was sorry to tell me, but he wasn't getting fired."
- ^ Jerry Crowe, Text messages from press row…, Los Angeles Times, November 27, 2007.
- ^ Smith <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22457196/>MSNBC/Orange County Register
- ^ Steve Wilstein - NCAA almost gets Colorado/Neuheisel affair right. Newspaper Network of Central Ohio, October 10, 2002.
- ^ Rose Bowl Hall of Fame
- ^ Tom Griffin - Sudden Impact. Husky Football Sees Surprise Coaching Turnover as Colorado Coach Rick Neuheisel Replaces Jim Lambright. Columns - The University of Washington Alumni Magazine, March 1999
- ^ At least a dozen members of the team were arrested or charged with a crime that carried jail time. Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry - The disturbing story behind the last great UW team — and how its legacy still casts a shadow on the Huskies. Seattle Times, January 27, 2008
- ^ NCAA clears Neuheisel, extends Washington's probation. CBS SportsLine.com, October 20, 2004
- ^ Dennis Dodd - Slick Rick walks. CBS SportsLine.com, October 20, 2004.
- ^ Neil Rudel - Paterno rallying support. Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pennsylvania, November 30, 2007 Quote:The annual Rick Neuheisel rumor got some legs when the Baltimore Ravens assistant, during an open date, was spotted at Beaver Stadium for a midseason game.
- ^ Chris Foster, Neuheisel to get second interview, Los Angeles Times, December 19, 2007.
- ^ David Ginsburg - With nothing to lose but another game, Ravens focus on Patriots. USA Today, November 26, 2007
- ^ T.J. Simers - Neuheisel sees what he's up against. New UCLA coach has good view of USC's dominance. Los Angeles Times, January 2, 2008. Quote:"RICK NEUHEISEL was sitting in the stands -- just where you'd expect to find a UCLA football coach these days at a Rose Bowl."
- ^ Tom Hoffarth - MEDIA: The special affects of snow - 'Passion bucket' list grows. Los Angeles Daily News, January 18, 2008. Quote:First used by incoming UCLA head coach Rick Neuheisel on Patrick's show a couple of weeks ago, "passion bucket" has already been dropped into an HBO "Inside the NFL" show last week by Bob Costas and used on the NFL Network by "Total Access" host Rich Eisen - both by Patrick's prodding.
- ^ Rick Neuheisel Coach bio University of Washington, dated 1998 before the start of his first season coaching the Huskies
- Jim Barnhart - 1984: Illini no match for Neuheisel, UCLA, Bloomington-Normal, Illinois Pantagraph (Pantagraph.com), December 15, 2007
- Bob Timmerman - The Rose Bowl and me: Part two: January 2, 1984 - UCLA vs. Illinois. Baseball Toaster (Griddle), December 27, 2006
- MATT HURST - Illinois' 1984 Rose Bowl loss is one the team would like to forget. The (Riverside) Press-Enterprise, December 26, 2007
- TRACY DODDS - Ailing Quarterback Leads UCLA to 45-9 Win in Rose Bowl. Los Angeles Times, January 3, 1984
- Los Angeles Times Staff - Caltech at It Again. Credit Beavers for Sabotaging Rose Bowl Scoreboard. Los Angeles Times, January 3, 1984. Quote:"In the fourth quarter, UCLA was leading Illinois, 38-9, but the scoreboard read: Caltech 38, MIT 9."
- Los Angeles Times Staff - Favorites Bowled Over. Neuheisel Leads Bruins to Glory; Nebraska Loses. Los Angeles Times, January 3, 1984. Quote:"In a day of bowl game upsets, UCLA swamped Illinois, 45-9, No. 2-ranked Texas was defeated, 10-9, by Georgia and previously unbeaten Nebraska, rated No. 1 in all polls, was surprised by Miami, 31-30."
- CHRIS BAKER - Neuheisel Proves to Be Poison to Illinois. Four Scoring Passes Are a Tough Act for Illini to Stomach. Los Angeles Times, January 3, 1984. Quote:"UCLA quarterback Rick Neuheisel had trouble sleeping before Monday's Rose Bowl game, but it wasn't because he was having nightmares about facing Illinois' defense."
- UCLA Bruins Football Media Guide (PDF copy available at www.uclabruins.com)
[edit] External links
- Baltimore Ravens - Rick Neuheisel
- Linde, Richard, "The Neuheisel Chronicles"
- Rose Bowl Legends.org - Rick Neuheisel profile
- Neuheisel enjoying life with the Ravens - The Seattle Times - 13-Jan-2007
- Settlement reached in Neuheisel's lawsuit against NCAA and UW - The Seattle Times 07-March-2005
| Preceded by Brian Billick |
Baltimore Ravens Offensive Coordinator 2007 |
Succeeded by Cam Cameron |
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